American protest-song legend Woody Guthrie was known for the sticker on his guitar reading “This Machine Kills Fascists”.
However, the murder of unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin by Kyle Rittenhouse — and the ongoing assaults against unarmed protesters by armed fascist thugs — have led me to conclude that there’s only one kind of machine that kills fascists — and it’s not a guitar.
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Virtual Delegate
At a shoddy-ass online shindig called the Democratic Convention, where they’re shitting all over the Left by publicly rehabilitating Colin Powell and all other manner of neocon crazies and war criminals, they add the extra kick in the nuts of presenting a rank butchery of one of the most iconic protest songs of all time — with the able assistance of its composer himself. This clumsily performative shit sandwich breaks the Cringe-O-Meter handily, and will be the William Shatner Doing “Rocket Man” Footage of this era.
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It Is What It Is
This past week, in an interview on Axios, Trump had this to say about the 150,000+ deaths from coronavirus this year: “It is what it is”. You actually have to take your hat off to something like that, something so sublimely, elegantly, ferociously tone-deaf — something even worse, in fact, than Biden’s immortal “you ain’t Black”, and that’s saying something.
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Capital and the State are trying to whip the working class back to work during a pandemic, but it won’t be entirely successful unless they can whip the kids back to school.
Unsurprisingly, Texas and Arizona — two states leading the nation in Covid-19 cases and stupidity — are whole-hog into it.
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